[dave2000]

> The biggest one being a C-centric view of programming that > has cost the world untold billions of dollars when dealing > with untrusted data.

I'm not sure it cost anyone anything. I mean, a lot of the OSes were/are written in it, so if you were going to go down that path you'd have to not totally forget to add a rather large benefit in the credit side. It's hard to imagine but programming wasn't always about compensating for not quite understanding how the 17 different frameworks you've downloaded from github and dragged into an IDE worked by just getting a faster machine. Once upon a time people had to carefully measure how much to unroll the loop, or how small a lookup table they could get away with before the errors become a problem.

[pjmlp]

And that was already being done in the 60's with much better languages, but the UNIX revisionists don't like people spend time reading about Burroughs, Algol-68RS, PL/I, Mesa and many other languages provided by mainframe owners.